Girl, 16, loses baby in car crash

A 16-year-old girl more than six months pregnant lost the baby after she crawled out of a car that overturned Sunday night near Allains Creek.

“The Annapolis (district) RCMP are now treating the investigation as a fatal motor vehicle collision,” Sgt. Rocky Calhoun said Tuesday.

The medical examiner’s office is also investigating to determine how the unborn child died.

Calhoun said officers suspect the 20-year-old driver may have been impaired, but they had not laid any charges by Tuesday afternoon. The RCMP are not releasing the names of either the driver or the passenger.

Fire crews cut the driver out of a Pontiac sedan when they found it on the side of Highway 1 sometime around 11 p.m. Sunday, west of Annapolis Royal. The man was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The teen had pulled herself out of the vehicle, Calhoun said.

Traffic analysts tried to reconstruct the crash to find out why the car veered off the road and then flipped onto its roof.

Calhoun wouldn’t talk about the extent of the driver’s injuries. The Mountie said the man stayed in hospital overnight Sunday. He didn’t know whether the teen was still in hospital Tuesday.

Calhoun couldn’t say how the passenger and the driver knew one another. Both live in Annapolis County.